I would replace most foreign aid with a tax credit for businesses to invest. I think U.S. bureaucrats giving foreign bureaucrats money is a guaranteed failure. And we’ve had about 50 years’ experience at failing with foreign aid. – Newt Gingrich

With everything that is complex; we learn. If you don’t learn; then it’s an utter and abject failure. If you do learn; and you’re able to apply that to the next situation; then you take away a measure of success. – Ben Carson

Poverty is about people lacking the tools they need to get on in life. And solving it is about tackling educational failure; antisocial behaviour; debt problems and addiction; and of course it’s about work. – Theresa May

Given the extent of the exposures of major banks around the world to A.I.G.; and in light of the extreme fragility of the system; there was a significant risk that A.I.G.’s failure could have sparked a global banking panic. – Ben Bernanke

If you’re constantly pushing yourself higher; higher; the law of averages – not to mention the myth of Icarus – predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do; I want you to know this; remember this: There is no such thing as failure. – Oprah Winfrey

He who refuses to stoop; who cannot be bribed by the promise of success or the fear of failure – who walks the highway of the right; and in disaster stands erect; is the only victor. – Robert Green Ingersoll

But thankfully; my first album; ‘Wide Screen;’ was sort of a critics’ darling – everyone raved about it; but no one bought it. They only manufactured 10;000 copies; I wasn’t even in the running for failure! – Rupert Holmes

As efforts to fix this failure at the Veterans Administration continue; I also intend to persist in demanding answers and action on the establishment of a new clinic to serve the veterans in North Central Washington. – Doc Hastings

Their lives have been largely defined by failure and you would think the prospect of marriage; which is supposed to be bountiful and hopeful; it’s just really another kind of tangential thing in his life. – Thomas Haden Church

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all; the creators of wealth; to produce less through strikes; it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product. – Brian Harris